In 2020, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya declared herself the winner of presidential elections in Belarus. But after the arrest of her husband, she fled to Poland. Since then, she’s assembled a cabinet of ministers that includes a spy chief. The World’s Carol Hills interviews Aleksander Azarov, the opposition government’s spymaster, about his work and ambitions for Belarus.
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